[Thomas Eakins] : artist file 1900-

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

[Thomas Eakins] : artist file 1900-

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610553903

Assembled file includes clippings, photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, postcards, press releases, slides, resumes, reviews, exhibition ephemera.

1 folder

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7791869

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc4xqv (corporateBody)

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x0675m (person)

Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...